Free Guided Walks Upcoming at Tidmarsh Farms

Michael P. O'Connor

LINCOLN, MA—Mass Audubon is inviting the public to experience the remarkable restoration of a former Plymouth cranberry bog to its original freshwater wetland and free-flowing stream habitat, in a series of free guided walks at Tidmarsh Farms later this month and in June.

The tours of the retired cranberry operation—which Mass Audubon is working to transform into a 479-acre wildlife sanctuary—are scheduled for Thursday evening, May 18, 6-8 pm; and two Saturday mornings, June 3 and June 17, both from 9-11 am.

Participants will be joined Tidmarsh Farms’ owners and Mass Audubon naturalists in exploring a landscape in evolution: an agricultural property which in the late 1980s produced one percent of the entire harvest for giant cooperative Ocean Spray is now finding ecological rebirth where alewives are returning, eagles and hawks again soar, and native plants can again thrive.

To join a walk, please email rsvp@massaudubon.org and include the date of the guided tour in the subject line.

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